I forgot to mention it in my earlier post but there is a Firefox version compiled for 64 bit Windows systems called Waterfox. I have been using Waterfox since last year and I can definetly notice a speed difference in general browsing performance compared to regular Firefox.
I've been using Firefox for years ever since it was called Phoenix and I love Firefox. Essential addons that I feel no one can absolutely live without such as Adblock Plus and Noscript along with Easylist and Fanboy filters for adblock ensure you have a much safer and faster browsing experience.
Whereas chrome only has an addon similiar to adblock but nowhere near as good.
From all that I have seen on Windows 8 previews and even trying it myself on a different computer it just makes me think of "Ahh... Fisher Price Windows". IMHO it's windows dumbed down for the masses. The kind of people who are like Joe sixpack or Jane bimbo where both of them barely have enough brains to even turn on the computer. Nevermind actually configuring and tweaking windows to run better and with more security or even having a dual boot system with a linux distro installed in case a windows installation went south for some reason. And speaking of which they are even limiting you from doing that unless you want to run Ubuntu or Redhat.
I strongly feel that once Windows XP support runs out come April 2014 people will be forced to finaly upgrade because god knows how often do you still see Windows XP nowadays in businesses, hospitals, offices, everywhere practically, and they will probably upgrade to Windows 7 and we will see Windows 7 have a *LONG* support lifecycle like Windows XP has had for the last eleven years. I do not think people will want the fisher price interface in business, local, provincial, or even federal here in Canada especially if you can not officially disable the metro interface and go back to a traditional desktop with a start button.
But, scary thought here, I could be wrong and government workers worldwide may just love the fisher price windows and moving blocks around it might make them feel smart.;-)
Half right. Her one max-level character is a mage (Forsaken), and the next highest is a hunter (Troll).
I play all the tank/healing toons to keep her safe -- as any good husband should.
That's interesting. In the five year's i've been playing I have raided with many husband/wife couples and more often then not it was the husband playing a tank and the wife being a healer to keep her husband alive along with the rest of the raid so to speak.:)
My wife and I both play, and have for years. My tendency is to play too much, get all the gear, and achievements, get frustrated by something stupid and quit for a while -- only to come back a few months later. My wife plays casually, *loves* the graphics, and all the little frills (pets, mounts, etc.), and actually *reads* quest text and follows the story. I tend to think she's doing it right, and I'm (usually) doing it wrong.
We'll be getting MoP and likely enjoying it enough to pay the fees.
And I bet your wife is either a healer which seems to be the most common class women pick, or is a tank followed by lastly DPS. And if she's DPS she plays a hunter because she likes the pets she can have right?:)
I've been reading all the posts here and I will agree that this game has catered hardcore to the casuals since about halfway through the WOTLK expansion. In vanilla and BC a guild had to work much harder to keep guild members, get them attuned to raids and gear them up and pray like hell no people left so you didn't have to re-gear someone new. Now if someone leaves a guild it's basically "Meh, whatever, lets find someone new who doesn't stand in fire and can watch vids on tankspot for fights".
Even today you still see random level 85 pug raids trying to do oh lets say Icecrown Citadel as an example. They have LFR gear and breeze right through all the bosses basically ignoring mechanics that were important when ICC was progression raiding. Only to get up to the Lich King (and this is usually in a PUG raid) to find that, yes, mechanics do matter even at level 85 and DS gear, and yes, you are a bloody moron for spreading defile on the platform and wiping the whole raid, and also a moron as a ranged character for not helping to kill the valks as they carry members of you're raid off the platform and drop them off the edge all the while the valks are thinking "HEHEHE F-ING NEWBS";-). I was in a guild that killed Lich King on my server back in 2010 and if you didn`t work well in a raid group you were considered a casual newbie and not worth raiding so to speak and didn`t know what the hell you were doing, especially if you didn`t have all the proper gems and enchants, could not listen on vent, and later on, reforged gear too.
Also from the days gone by was the hours, and somedays days long, battleground fights in Alterac Valley while each team tried to summon creatures to help turn the tide of battle. Now, battlegrounds are more often then not bots just standing at starting area casting random spells to avoid AFK status and the occasional blatant speed bots running around in BG's.
I don't have high hopes for MoP as it just seems like Pokemon (letting your companions fight in arenas), farming (Can we say farmville anyone?) and raids and dungeons that from what i`ve seen on beta videos on youtube look really easy. But, since I have five 85`s (DK, Warlock, Rogue, Shaman, and Warrior) from playing the last five years I may renew my sub in September and buy the standard edition to check it out.. but then I think back to how screwed up D3 launch was in USA compared to Korea where it launched on time and a lot of koreans had D3 on farm the next day and on streaming videos.
Try imagining all the servers same day MoP is released and how flooded the panda starting zone will be, how many idiotic kids will be there spamming anal jokes and acting, well, like kids do, and how many server restarts and crashes and emergency patches will be issued. Might be better off to wait a few weeks to resub and get the standard edition.:)
If worse comes to worse there`s always SIlkroad Online-R to play where all you have to deal with is Korea style mass grinding to get anywhere, lots of newbies using player bots because they can`t handle korea style grinding let along WoW style grinding, and more non english speaking players then english. *Rolls eyes*.
Well this pretty much kills that myth that Mac's have been mostly immune to viruses and malware. Especially if it shows pictures of Steve Jobs to which your typical mac fanboy/girl will pray to the almighty Jobs in Apple Heaven and rapidly click to install this.
Here in Saskatchewan we are pretty much the only province in Canada that doesn't switch time in regards to DST. So in effect we are like Arizona and don't switch.
Older stores in the 1990's like Computer City that was active in the USA and even Canada for awhile. I had worked at Computer City in Coquitlam, British Columbia from 1997 to 1998 and it was a very sad day to see the store close down and this was even before the internet and online sales really took off.
Wow, you must have bought some really crappy VCRs!
I seem to recall in the household growing up we had common name brands like Hitachi, JVC, Sony, etcetera, so it wasn't like my family was buying the most cheapest brands around at the time. Mind you though if you wanted crappy VCRs, the ones made by RCA in the early 80's that were heavy enough to kill someone and weighed about 60 pounds would certainly qualify!
Although VHS was very useful back in the 80's and 90's for recording various TV shows there was always playback issues between various brands of VHS machines simply because of how one machine recorded the show, the next one might have issues with grainy playback, fast forwarding or rewinding, or even audio issues. And remember the fun of buying the VHS cleaning tapes to try and keep the head(s) clean for optimal playback? Fun times!
You have to wonder if the console versions will require a constant connection to blizzard's battle.net system along with a REALID registration? God forbid though if they allow voice chat in the console version. Who wants to hear little kids screaming all the time?
Good riddance indeed - it means all the bad players from the WOTLK and earlier era's are now gone that had no clue how to gear up, play, raid, and to NOT STAND I. I have really, really enjoyed Cataclysm immensly.
I wonder if this counted all of the World of Warcraft servers worldwide as well? Since 2004 I'm sure there's been a LOT of information sent back and forth between millions of players!:)
I never thought I'd see the day John Carmack would admit DirectX is better then OpenGL. I remember since the early days of doom and quake how they trumpeted OPENGL as the end all and be all of the flagship games. I guess miracles do happen!
I think Intel got ripped off IMHO. I remember years ago, back in the early 1990's, when Mcaffee was actually a decent anti virus product for DOS and was even command line based and did the job pretty good... now years later its bloated crapware that businesses seem to love running (Either mcaffee or god forbid Norton).
I fail to see the need to drill to this lake so far below the surface. For one thing I would be worried about bringing back up who knows what with organisms and bacteria that we have not seen before that could be dangerous, also don't you think they would be contaminating this lake by drilling into it?
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I forgot to mention it in my earlier post but there is a Firefox version compiled for 64 bit Windows systems called Waterfox. I have been using Waterfox since last year and I can definetly notice a speed difference in general browsing performance compared to regular Firefox.
http://waterfoxproject.org/
I've been using Firefox for years ever since it was called Phoenix and I love Firefox. Essential addons that I feel no one can absolutely live without such as Adblock Plus and Noscript along with Easylist and Fanboy filters for adblock ensure you have a much safer and faster browsing experience.
Whereas chrome only has an addon similiar to adblock but nowhere near as good.
From all that I have seen on Windows 8 previews and even trying it myself on a different computer it just makes me think of "Ahh... Fisher Price Windows". IMHO it's windows dumbed down for the masses. The kind of people who are like Joe sixpack or Jane bimbo where both of them barely have enough brains to even turn on the computer. Nevermind actually configuring and tweaking windows to run better and with more security or even having a dual boot system with a linux distro installed in case a windows installation went south for some reason. And speaking of which they are even limiting you from doing that unless you want to run Ubuntu or Redhat.
I strongly feel that once Windows XP support runs out come April 2014 people will be forced to finaly upgrade because god knows how often do you still see Windows XP nowadays in businesses, hospitals, offices, everywhere practically, and they will probably upgrade to Windows 7 and we will see Windows 7 have a *LONG* support lifecycle like Windows XP has had for the last eleven years. I do not think people will want the fisher price interface in business, local, provincial, or even federal here in Canada especially if you can not officially disable the metro interface and go back to a traditional desktop with a start button.
But, scary thought here, I could be wrong and government workers worldwide may just love the fisher price windows and moving blocks around it might make them feel smart. ;-)
Someone has been watching Demolition Man a bit too much I think...
Wow such potential for security.. get your eyes changed every 90 days. :P
Half right. Her one max-level character is a mage (Forsaken), and the next highest is a hunter (Troll).
I play all the tank/healing toons to keep her safe -- as any good husband should.
That's interesting. In the five year's i've been playing I have raided with many husband/wife couples and more often then not it was the husband playing a tank and the wife being a healer to keep her husband alive along with the rest of the raid so to speak. :)
My wife and I both play, and have for years. My tendency is to play too much, get all the gear, and achievements, get frustrated by something stupid and quit for a while -- only to come back a few months later. My wife plays casually, *loves* the graphics, and all the little frills (pets, mounts, etc.), and actually *reads* quest text and follows the story. I tend to think she's doing it right, and I'm (usually) doing it wrong.
We'll be getting MoP and likely enjoying it enough to pay the fees.
And I bet your wife is either a healer which seems to be the most common class women pick, or is a tank followed by lastly DPS. And if she's DPS she plays a hunter because she likes the pets she can have right? :)
I've been reading all the posts here and I will agree that this game has catered hardcore to the casuals since about halfway through the WOTLK expansion. In vanilla and BC a guild had to work much harder to keep guild members, get them attuned to raids and gear them up and pray like hell no people left so you didn't have to re-gear someone new. Now if someone leaves a guild it's basically "Meh, whatever, lets find someone new who doesn't stand in fire and can watch vids on tankspot for fights".
Even today you still see random level 85 pug raids trying to do oh lets say Icecrown Citadel as an example. They have LFR gear and breeze right through all the bosses basically ignoring mechanics that were important when ICC was progression raiding. Only to get up to the Lich King (and this is usually in a PUG raid) to find that, yes, mechanics do matter even at level 85 and DS gear, and yes, you are a bloody moron for spreading defile on the platform and wiping the whole raid, and also a moron as a ranged character for not helping to kill the valks as they carry members of you're raid off the platform and drop them off the edge all the while the valks are thinking "HEHEHE F-ING NEWBS" ;-). I was in a guild that killed Lich King on my server back in 2010 and if you didn`t work well in a raid group you were considered a casual newbie and not worth raiding so to speak and didn`t know what the hell you were doing, especially if you didn`t have all the proper gems and enchants, could not listen on vent, and later on, reforged gear too.
Also from the days gone by was the hours, and somedays days long, battleground fights in Alterac Valley while each team tried to summon creatures to help turn the tide of battle. Now, battlegrounds are more often then not bots just standing at starting area casting random spells to avoid AFK status and the occasional blatant speed bots running around in BG's.
I don't have high hopes for MoP as it just seems like Pokemon (letting your companions fight in arenas), farming (Can we say farmville anyone?) and raids and dungeons that from what i`ve seen on beta videos on youtube look really easy. But, since I have five 85`s (DK, Warlock, Rogue, Shaman, and Warrior) from playing the last five years I may renew my sub in September and buy the standard edition to check it out.. but then I think back to how screwed up D3 launch was in USA compared to Korea where it launched on time and a lot of koreans had D3 on farm the next day and on streaming videos.
Try imagining all the servers same day MoP is released and how flooded the panda starting zone will be, how many idiotic kids will be there spamming anal jokes and acting, well, like kids do, and how many server restarts and crashes and emergency patches will be issued. Might be better off to wait a few weeks to resub and get the standard edition. :)
If worse comes to worse there`s always SIlkroad Online-R to play where all you have to deal with is Korea style mass grinding to get anywhere, lots of newbies using player bots because they can`t handle korea style grinding let along WoW style grinding, and more non english speaking players then english. *Rolls eyes*.
His family *was* growing until he took an arrow to the knee.
If Mr. Freeman's invited better have some crowbars and other weapons ready in case alien creatures and head crabs jump out of the machinery! :)
Well this pretty much kills that myth that Mac's have been mostly immune to viruses and malware. Especially if it shows pictures of Steve Jobs to which your typical mac fanboy/girl will pray to the almighty Jobs in Apple Heaven and rapidly click to install this.
It happens by accident.
That's what he said...
Here in Saskatchewan we are pretty much the only province in Canada that doesn't switch time in regards to DST. So in effect we are like Arizona and don't switch.
Older stores in the 1990's like Computer City that was active in the USA and even Canada for awhile. I had worked at Computer City in Coquitlam, British Columbia from 1997 to 1998 and it was a very sad day to see the store close down and this was even before the internet and online sales really took off.
Wow, you must have bought some really crappy VCRs!
I seem to recall in the household growing up we had common name brands like Hitachi, JVC, Sony, etcetera, so it wasn't like my family was buying the most cheapest brands around at the time. Mind you though if you wanted crappy VCRs, the ones made by RCA in the early 80's that were heavy enough to kill someone and weighed about 60 pounds would certainly qualify!
Although VHS was very useful back in the 80's and 90's for recording various TV shows there was always playback issues between various brands of VHS machines simply because of how one machine recorded the show, the next one might have issues with grainy playback, fast forwarding or rewinding, or even audio issues. And remember the fun of buying the VHS cleaning tapes to try and keep the head(s) clean for optimal playback? Fun times!
You have to wonder if the console versions will require a constant connection to blizzard's battle.net system along with a REALID registration? God forbid though if they allow voice chat in the console version. Who wants to hear little kids screaming all the time?
This was done already in the past - it's a game called Carmen Sandiego! Think about, "International Detective theme" just says it all!
Good riddance indeed - it means all the bad players from the WOTLK and earlier era's are now gone that had no clue how to gear up, play, raid, and to NOT STAND I. I have really, really enjoyed Cataclysm immensly.
I wonder if this counted all of the World of Warcraft servers worldwide as well? Since 2004 I'm sure there's been a LOT of information sent back and forth between millions of players! :)
Sony's method of protecting private data!
http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=302
I never thought I'd see the day John Carmack would admit DirectX is better then OpenGL. I remember since the early days of doom and quake how they trumpeted OPENGL as the end all and be all of the flagship games. I guess miracles do happen!
I think Intel got ripped off IMHO. I remember years ago, back in the early 1990's, when Mcaffee was actually a decent anti virus product for DOS and was even command line based and did the job pretty good... now years later its bloated crapware that businesses seem to love running (Either mcaffee or god forbid Norton).
I fail to see the need to drill to this lake so far below the surface. For one thing I would be worried about bringing back up who knows what with organisms and bacteria that we have not seen before that could be dangerous, also don't you think they would be contaminating this lake by drilling into it?
I was not aware SJ was a father and led a "Church Of Apple"...